Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-10-20
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

FOREIGN GOSSIP.
I'm Mexico laborers get eighteen TO
twenty-five cents day, and are often
paid in farm produce.
"A Berlin company offers electricity
for boiling water, and other heating
purposes as well as for lighting.
1t is estimated that there ara more
than Fifty thousand families in London
with only one room each to live in.
The original stock of the beet oc-
ours wild on the shores of the Med
iterranean sea, in Greece, and grows
wild in some of the islands of the At
aantic ocean. This is the common
mangold, of which there are two sub
species.
The titles Of the King of Burmah
include the king of kings, the cause of
of the preservation of all animals, the
regulator of the seasons, the absolute
master of the ebb and flow of the sea,
brother to the sun. and king of the
four and twenty umbrellas
The sacred Burmese white ele-
plant is to be removed from Mandalay
to Rangoon to convince the natives
that the royal house has disappeared
forever. So long as the elephant re-
manned at Mandalay many of the Bur-
mans firmly believed that Thebaw or
his family would eventually enjoy
their own again.
According to the Prauiteistvennyi
Vestnik the Russian army has 2, SO8
surgeons, 2S2 veterinary surgeons and
8, 455 teldshers (medical assistants).
The strength of the Russian army on a
peace footing is said to be about 300, =
600. SO that the allowance is about one
surgeon to every 800 men.
DIR. S. Hurgronje. of Leyden, is
the fifth European who has visited the
city of Mecca He lived there six
months in 1885, in the disguise of a
Mohammedan, and says that the sur
face of the city is gradually rising. in
consequence of the action of the rains
which wash the soil down from neigh
boring heights.
"A College of State Medicine has
been founded in London. The council
includes a number of distinguished
medical men. The main purpose of
the institution is the advancement of
sanitary science in it's public aspects.
The teaching will be carried on by
means of lectures and laboratory in
struction. and students will be quail
fled to become public analists or
health officers.
1t is not generally known that
pearl fishing is carried on in rivers of
Saxony. A family by the name of
Schneider has for generations had the
monopoly of following this pursuit for
the benefit of the State. The Weiss
lister and its tributaries furnished
last year one hundred pearls For
merly the yield was much greater, and
in the sixteenth century pearl fishing
was considered in Saxony of rather
more Importance than the mining in
dustries.
Berlin has gradually become the
headquarters of the carved-wood in
dustry, supplanting Switzerland. Six
same number of turner's, and 700 car
penters are engaged in manufacturing
such articles as cigar leases, news
paper and pleture-frames, napkin
rings. etc. The value of the annual
export of these articles is 5000. 900
marks. and this is exclusive of the
costly .arved wood furniture, the
manufacture and export of which is
likewise assuming large proportions
Recent explorations by Italian
travellers in the region of the Lower
Congo, and of the Ogowai river in
Western Africa. leave no doubt that
some of the native tribes, and notably
the people known as the Fans, are
cannibals. They not only eat men,
but they manifest decided prefer
ence for this kind of food. The Cava-
liere A. Pccile, who was member of
the Brazza expedition, says that three
of their boatmen, who happened to be
left behind near Fan village on the
banks of the Ogowai, were killed by
the inhabitants, and so completely
devoured that their skeletons were
subsequently found picked clean. -
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